Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1858 — Steam on the Erie Canal. [ARTICLE]

Steam on the Erie Canal.

The Buffalo papers chronicle the return of _ : the steam canal boats, after a most suc'-ees- ! ful trip from that place to -.'lbanv. The Republic say - : After leaving. Ro. hestt r, ’he l-oats made eight miles in two hours without difficulty, I creating a .- aretdv pTfceptibl- r v -B, in no > place exceeding thre’" inch ’s m bight, and I 'much less than -was always .in ade by the old 'ipacket. boats. The tiller chains, which 1 were not (■-jartlv fitted, were then re-ar-i ranged, an f ‘h" company started, the boat making t-• miles m two hours, under, the j new arrangerne’nt with, apparent!'- the same * j ease that 'she had made the previ ua -esgh'* 'miles Air. Van Slyck. the builder of the ' ’ "at. was ot board, and informed us that he • had discovered several defects that could be 1 easily remedied, which would increase the speed to a great degree; but that this, as an experiment, had far exceeded his expccta•fons. . Those who wx-r.t on board; those who have long been co‘.'ted with the naviga--1 tion of the '.inal. v t-i i-.' pert.in the tnatter. co:. ,jr, i-. e «r.'. > the opinitynthaf t..r experimen’ ; 11. a entirely successful, and that the navigation of the canal by steam, is now only dependant upon a mattTot time in buflding propellers. They did not regard the model of the boat as per feet, but universally eariie to the conglumoi I that steam was hereafter to be the onlv agent ‘to transfer the great products ot the West !to the Atlantic seaboard. As Canal (,’om .... : missioner Ruggles stated, hereafter the price I -0f ,t ralismission ■a! freight from Biillalo toNew York is reduced fifty per cent., which I must inevitably monopolize all the vast trade which now tlnds its /way from the lake to the ocean.—ffi.</rrn Christian Advocate. IfET t‘K > EJi. tiov. Deliver, accompanied : by his w ifci-arrived in Leavenworth on Fridav, 30th ult . on his way to Lecompton trom his.late- Eastern tour. We learn from the Washington In ion that the Governor has abandoned the idea of resigning his office for the pesent. Gov- D- is the only gentleman who has held that post and given satisfaction to all parties. He is a good executive officer, an i | we hope he will be induced to remain with ■ us until we pass from our Territorial cnpdi-Y Won.—Herald of freedom. (k>“'A Western editor says: “It is snp ; posed that angels do not wear dresses Our fashionable ladies'nre getting more and more 1 angelic every year.” Woburn *■ Budget” thinks there has been considerable “wire pulling” lately between England and the United. States

How Towns grow in the West. —lt ap- I ’ pears that very far out west then -. fe .i a tribe of Indians who lived in a very secluded, vast wilderness, which tht.v had hept'i for the'r lodges a long time <j;.e Sne morning they all started oil’ on a hors> Stealing excursion, and did not return for -.any days. When 'they did, they found a firstclass hotel with nigger waiters, gongs, wine, cards and Johannisberg, on the spot where their council-lodge had been, and a town scattered around it, with jlots at two hundred ■dcliars a foot' Enterprising people, this